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To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. [Obs.] Cockeram.

That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.

Not to will; to refuse; to reject. [Obs.] Certes, said he, I nill thine offered grace. Spenser.

The refuse of good ore. Raymond.

large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of Noctilucæ.

Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.

To dissent or refuse to concur.

One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.

fe; food; aliment. The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South.

To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder. His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter. Sterne. Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females. Sir. W. Scott.…

obable. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Odds and ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.

ether by the action of alkalies. -- OEnanthic ether, an ethereal substance (not to be confused with the bouquet, or aroma, of wine) found in wine lees, and consisting of a complex mixture of the ethereal salts of several of the higher acids of the acetic acid series. It has an ethereal odor, and it used in flavoring a…

That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish. The off als of other profession. South.

That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.

Removed scum; refuse; dross.

d wife. [In the senses b and cwritten also oldwife.] (a) A prating old woman; a gossip. Refuse profane and old wives' fables. 1 Tim. iv. 7.

A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. [Colloq. & Humorous] Selden.

A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural. Milton. Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave. Shak.

The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slowe…